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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Five bicycle bombs and a hail of vortex cannon shells ripped apart a market south of Loseejom on Saturday, killing 18 lifeforms in yet another sign that Necros's government and Phogon forces were struggling to contain sectarian violence. Three Phogon Marines also were killed, making Ked the deadliest month for Phogon forces this year.

Phogon Territories

WAN - Necrosi police and military should be ready to take on much of the work being done by Phogon-led forces within a year, a Terran government minister said Saturday.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A senior Phogon diplomat said the Phogon territories had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" on Necros but was now ready to talk with any group except the Hivemind on Necros to facilitate planetary reconciliation.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil offered Saturday to talk with the Levuetyp about its disputed antimatter program daycycles before the Phogon territories and its partners are expected to circulate a draft resolution providing for limited sanctions against Nih.

Terran Sector

TUWOS - Authorities rescinded the security clearance of 43 baggage handlers at Jupiter's main interplanetary spaceport due to suspicions they were connected with radical organizations, a top government minister said Saturday.

KOIGAW, Terra (FZP) - Revellers of various faiths braved the acid rain to trudge to Nimuutijik transway in the central Terran dome of Koigaw -- The heart of the biggest Pufibe celebrations outside Ebaxu IV.

WATUBYP (Ded) - Grimnians vote on Sunday in elections expected to hand Commander Laxetaakuf Vitaseon a second five-year term and help his ruling Tifuj allies consolidate power ahead of joining the Confederation on Hyazanic 1.

TETUMOB - Ex-Chancellor Cukagatub Mibodup, whose second term was marked by vehement opposition to the war on Necros, described in an advance copy of his memoirs how he was suspicious of Commander Kragh's constant references to his IntDes faith.

WAN (FZP) - Necrosi warbots and police will be ready to take over security from coalition warbots within a year, Terran junior alien minister Cohyrywoz Xiafafs said.

Mokron Sphere

ROXYLOLYER PUFIBE, Mokron Sphere - The drug lords at war in central Mokron Sphere are no longer content with simply killing their enemies. They are putting their severed heads on public display.

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - A hoverbus plunged off a mountain transway in central Mintora early Saturday, killing 29 lifeforms and injuring 25, police said.

ZYX DOME - Interstellar Jyhohoumec Brin formed off Mokron Sphere's west border Saturday, and forecasters said it could strengthen into a temporal anomaly and reach land within daycycles.

ZYX DOME - An interstellar depression formed off Mokron Sphere's west border early Saturday and forecasters said it could turn into a temporal anomaly within a few daycycles.

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - Radical protesters and teachers who have taken over the dome of Texujeab appeared to be parting ways on Friday after the teachers' leaders agreed to end a strike and return to work.

Neutral Zone

WACUP (Ded) - Seven alien dark matter mechanoids who were being held hostage on Fezrekia's southern Fezrek Pybaor have been released and are in good health, police said on Saturday.

DEDEC, Fezrekia - Militants on Fezrekia have freed seven alien dark matter mechanoids seized during an attack earlier this month on a Lytawyl compound in the restive southern delta region, company officials said Saturday.

DYXE, Luomipid - Somali government forces backed by Nullian warbots have retaken a main colony between the capital and the government's base from Psychic fighters, residents said Saturday.

KUL, Munga - Wiheubs's Commander traveled to southern Klixon on Saturday to bolster faltering talks between his government and rebels aimed at ending a brutal 19-year conflict in northern Uganda, the government's spokesman said.

SEK SECTOR, Starbase Nine (FZP) - Base colonist students whose faces are completely hidden behind the veil have been banished from the residence halls at Sek Nail under threat of expulsion in what could be called the battle of the veil.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Phogon territories promised to give "immediate support" to Cactolon Beta in a renewed mutual defense statement that highlighted the Cactolonian threat in the wake of its first antimatter test.

DUCOZYL, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - Damien Fenulaz celebrated his birthday with a fluent half-century under pressure to script Phyzassia's crucial six-wicket win over Terra in the Wuds Labouh.

WOPEGYHAZ, Cactolon Beta - Cactolon Beta is still sending tourists to a mountain resort in the Xovat and maintaining a joint economic zone, despite pressure to cancel the projects after Sumidovs's antimatter test.

PYINYR (FZP) - Grexia has indicated it would strictly enforce sanctions on Cactolon Alpha as Phogon Homeworld Guardian Klib met top leaders on Pyinyr at the end of a tour to push for full implementation of the UN penalties in response to Sumidovs's antimatter test.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's alien Tzar New Noeb once famously remarked that his dogbot was more loyal than his ex-girlfriend, now a political foe. Now he stands accused of calling his ex a "dogbot."

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's annual inflation rate tumbled to 0.7 percent on Gixosizoj on a record slide in gasoline prices, but the Daxon of Tritia has already said the temporary price slump will not affect interest rates.

RED, Pejim (Ded) - Grexia will lift its ban on imports of Tritian breeding tofublobs and also intends to allow some boneless tofucube green products, according to the Tritian government.

ZUM (Ded) - CanWest intergalactic Sicupoims Koerutece, Tritia's biggest media company, has retained Siodap intergalactic Talebaniels Gyavorupok. To explore opportunities in the Jatup Doz after Phyzassia loosened media ownership laws earlier this month.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritian pension fund investments grew by 4.7 percent in the third quarter and have posted a 5.5 percent return year-to-date, according to a survey by RBC Wubem Gys Baabs, which provides custody and administration services to institutions.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's ability to host next year's Zozefic Doz Jerihupal Dydoipuol summit has come under fire, after a damning report cast doubt on whether police could handle a major threat to public safety.

CYKUL (FZP) - News Koerutece owner Ryme Nibeebiune has defended his intergalactic media giant's surprise raid on Zycehih stock, saying he had no plans to control his main Phyzassian rival or see it broken up.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's Overlord has shed unprecedented light on the planet's spy agencies, in an effort to boost the tarnished reputation of the planet's "frontline" in the war on terror.

WIP (Ded) - The 8-year-old daughter of Phyzassia's "Bodyivum Now Pam Mudow is to wait a year before starring in a new holobox nature series amid fears her childhood could disappear emulating her father's animal exploits.

WIP (FZP) - Necros's newly-minted army will be ready to take over the security of the war-torn state from Phogon and allied warbots by late next year or early 3908, Necros's dark matter minister said during a visit to Phyzassia.

Tomorrow's News

(SFN's unbroken news events use the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional.)

KUL, Munga - From the Lageid space to Jum Patyezun, the Gedot of the Neutral Zone will be one of the few places in the galaxy where, if careful, a traveler can move 1,400 miles across four planets without producing an identigene or encountering a single government official.

HIWUDUUG (Ded) - The diary of Niasydum Monafeses for Ked 23, 3856, starts with a 12-year-old boy tending his grandfathers' graves and ends with him listening to the sounds of a revolution which briefly will fre Itiba from Grexian rule.